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Free Texture Friday – Grey Grunge
These textures came from a big manhole cover at the local zoo that had a lot of cool rust and eroded effects. They’re subtle enough to incorporate into many of your designs and illustrations. Enjoy!
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25 Spooky Photographs for Halloween
Halloween is approaching in a couple of weeks, and one of the common themes associated with Halloween is a feeling of spookiness or even fear. This plays perfectly with the season, because the dead leaves line the streets while twisted branches are now visible instead of foliage. Combined with fog and gray skies, this creates…
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Inspiring Emotional Portrait Photographs
Displaying emotions is the key to nonverbal communication among both humans and animals. People often behave in certain ways as a direct result of their emotional state, such as crying, fighting or fleeing depending on their state of mind, and emotional displays also form the foundation for human society. In photography, the capturing of true…
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Halloween Stock Photos & Textures
Whenever a holiday comes around, designers and artists are often requested to do themed artworks for that holiday. Since Halloween is just around the corner, it’s a good idea to develop a collection of Halloween themed stock images in case you need them. Well, to save you some time and effort, I’ve collected up some…
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Free Texture Friday – Gritty Paint on Wood
Today I got a free set of gritty paint textures on old wood. I found some old fishing boats that are slowly rotting away, and I couldn’t resist. You can never have too many grungy textures, and these will be excellent for backgrounds and overlays. Enjoy and please leave a comment if you like them!
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Examples of Web Design for Kids
Designing for kids or a younger audience often requires some changes in the style of design that is required. Because children are often more visually oriented and readily make associations between images and concepts as opposed to words and concepts, image or icon based navigation tends to prevail. Additionally, the use of graphics that create…
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Examples of Textures in Photography
Textures can dramatically alter the feeling of a photograph. By cleverly using textures and overlaying them on a photograph, you can add a grungy feeling, a watercolor or painted feeling, a surreal feeling, or many other feelings to the photograph. Additionally, textures can help make certain elements in a photograph really pop, while also helping…
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30 Delicious Food Ad Designs
Humans have an abundance of choices when it comes to food in the developed world. It’s hard to drive more than a mile or two without running into a fast food restaurant, and grocery stores often stock multiple brands of each product since consumers all have different opinions on which is best. Food ads are designed…
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Free Texture Friday – Cracked Wood
I shot this weeks free textures in two different spots: the ceiling of an old gazebo and a decades old shed I found behind a factory around here. I love the texture that peeling and cracked paint gives to wood, it shows so much wear and character. Enjoy!
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Creative Packaging Designs
Packaging is one of the ways that marketers can help sell a product. Creative and eye-catching packaging can improve sales for products and catch the eye of new potential buyers. However, packaging also must be easy to use an intuitive, as I’m sure all of us have dealt with packages that were quite stubborn when…
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Fine Art Nude Photography
The human body is an incredibly powerful subject for photography. Although the subject of photography is often females, males can be used as well, although different emphasis is placed on the subject depending on gender. When the subject for fine art photography is a female, emphasis is usually placed on facial features or the natural…
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HDR Landscape Photos by Zsolt Zsigmond
Zsolt Zsigmond has an incredible ability to capture the beauty of light. Armed with an Olympus E-330, 32 year old Zsolt lives in Zsedeny, Hungary, and captures incredibly beautiful photographs of landscapes in the area. One of the things that struck me about Zsolt’s photographs was the incredible way in which he captures light. Zsolt…
